US sues Apple for illegal monopoly over smartphones - eviltoast
The lawsuit seeks to upend a major part of Apple’s business.

The US Department of Justice and 16 state and district attorneys general accused Apple of operating an illegal monopoly in the smartphone market in a new antitrust lawsuit. The DOJ and states are accusing Apple of driving up prices for consumers and developers at the expense of making users more reliant on its iPhones.

  • prole@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    114·
    8 months ago

    but the UI is substantially better than Android.

    Yeah, hard disagree

    For one, you can make Android look/behave like anything you want.

    • A Phlaming Phoenix@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      8 months ago

      In general, I agree. I’ll add two things:

      • Android allows you to use third party launchers if you don’t like the one that comes with your phone. I use Nova Launcher, for instance. I’m not an Apple person, but to my knowledge that’s either not possible or a pain to do on an iPhone. It also lets me buy from different Android device manufacturers and keep a consistent UI across all of them.
      • Android has some serious UX issues in a few places. The one that gets me the most is when you share something. The interface you get differs based on the source app, sometimes only has a handful of visible options with no sorting or recency options, and it hides the fact that’s you can scroll to see more, but never more than about four at a time.

      Still, I’ll take it over an iPhone any day.